Deprecation Notice

The OrleansBlobStorageProvider has been merged into the Orleans codebase.

The next release of Orleans will contain this provider by default, and can be used as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<OrleansConfiguration xmlns="urn:orleans">
    <Globals>
        <StorageProviders>
            <Provider Type="Orleans.Storage.AzureBlobStorage" Name="BlobStore" DataConnectionString="UseDevelopmentStorage=true" ContainerName="grainstate"/>
        </StorageProviders>
        ...

Orleans Blob Storage Provider

Stores Orleans grain state in blob storage as Json.

The master branch targets the latest release.

The April_14 branch targets the initial release.

Installation

The Orleans SDK must be installed first.

Using NuGet, with the GrainClasses (or Silo Host) project as your target:

Install-Package Orleans.StorageProvider.Blob

Then register the provider in your Silo Configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<OrleansConfiguration xmlns="urn:orleans">
    <Globals>
        <StorageProviders>
            <Provider Type="Orleans.StorageProvider.Blob.BlobStorageProvider" Name="BlobStore" DataConnectionString="UseDevelopmentStorage=true" ContainerName="grainstate"/>
        </StorageProviders>
        ...

Optional Attributes that can be added to the provider element

• PreserveReferencesHandling="true" - Preserves reference handling for objects during Json serialization

Then from your grain code configure grain storage:

// define a state interface
public interface IMyGrainState : IGrainState
{
        string Value { get; set; }
}

// Select the BlobStore as the storage provider for the grain
[StorageProvider(ProviderName="BlobStore")]
public class Grain1 : Orleans.Grain<IMyGrainState>, IGrain1
{
        public Task Test(string value)
        {
        	// set the state and save it
                this.State.Value = value;
                return this.State.WriteStateAsync();
        }

}

Grains are stored in json format with the following convention for blob names:

{GrainType}-{GrainId}.json

i.e.

GrainCollection1.Grain1-0.json

License

MIT